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Drivers fear 11 months of road misery from £7 million flood defence scheme
Works to begin in January after being postponed earlier this year.
Architects to create ‘unique’ town centre
A partnership of council bosses and housing chiefs has appointed DAY Architectural Ltd to carry out a ‘masterplan’ for Rawtenstall town centre following a design competition and consultation.
Competition for Rossendale's best independent shops racks up 1,000 votes
The competition, running until October 4, asks local people to vote for their favourite independent retailer.
Writers' donate remaining funds to Rossendale Hospice
Rossendale Writers have donated £1,000 to the hospice.
Help out with BIG clean up
Civic Pride chiefs are hoping for a record turnout at their upcoming big spring clean-up.
Time for YOU to join BIG Valley spring clean-up
Can you spare an hour of your time to keep our streets clean?
What's on in Rossendale
What's on in Rossendale and the surrounding area
Easter fine food market set to wow crowds
Organisers of a food, craft and vintage market hope the weather will improve for this weekend's event in Rawtenstall.
Age UK shop ‘comes of age’ after 21 years
Staff from the town centre store on Bank Street hosted a 21st birthday party.
Rossendale Hospice opens up new charity shop
The charity shop, which sells a variety of goods, raises vital funds to support the day to day running of the Hospice.
Rossendale Valley set to honour Remembrance Day
The Valley is set to honour those who gave their lives in war with Remembrance services and parades this weekend.
Rawtenstall gears up for Christmas markets
An artisan Christmas market will be set up at the new town square.
Rawtenstall's new town square 'will spark Valley revival'
The opening of Rawtenstall's new market square could help to revive the fortunes of the Valley, it was claimed this week.
Olympic handballers hope to inspire others
Handball has become one of the most talked-about sports of the Olympics thanks to two Rossendale players.
Coffee and ice creams on offer at new public square in Rawtenstall
Plans have been unveiled for an ice cream and coffee kiosk on the site of the new council-owned Rawtenstall public square.
Bookies shop worker's 'terrifying ordeal' at hands of armed robbery
A pair of balaclava-clad men raided a Rawtenstall bookmakers and threatened a female worker during a 'terrifying ordeal'.
Minister's praise for town Portas Pilot bid
Rawtenstall has put together a ‘great’ bid to become a Mary Portas pilot town, according to the man who will rule over the contest.
Demolition work all set to begin at Valley Centre
Work is underway to prepare the Valley Centre for demolition. A hoarding, to protect surrounding buildings and passers-by was put in place, with the site completely closed off to ensure public safety. Businesses nearby will be open as usual.
300 smoke alarms fitted after tragedies
More than 300 smoke alarms were claimed by Valley residents following a spate of tragic house fire deaths.
Valley Centre sale is ‘first step in a historic journey’
Senior councillors have confirmed that they have put to paper to buy the empty shopping centre from former owners Ashcap for £2.1m.
Can you spot the banned shutters?
Rules banning shopkeepers from erecting metal shutters that are allowed on neighbouring stores could be scrapped.
Hotel idea for cleared Valley Centre site
A budget hotel will form the central plank of Valley Centre redevelopment plans. Council chiefs say a national firm is interested in building a hotel once the derelict shopping complex has been cleared.
Town is ‘worst in UK’ for empty shops
Rawtenstall is the worst town in the country for vacant shops with 40 per cent standing empty, a new survey has revealed.
Will plans for a new Haslingden pool be scrapped to save the Valley Centre?
Concil bosses could use money saved by scrapping plans for a new Haslingden pool to buy the Valley Centre.


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Frankfurt's book bonus
The publishing industry in New Zealand is anticipating a multi-year economic gain from its guest of honour status at the world's largest book fair.
But the president of the Book Publishers Association is frustrated Kiwis haven't cottoned on to the magnitude of the opportunity.
It's been a tough few years for New Zealand publishing, so being named guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair in a two-horse race with Australia has brought welcome excitement. But association president Kevin Chapman said the New Zealand media and public don't seem to understand what a marvellous showcase it is for the country.
The last few years has seen publishers facing up to competition from online booksellers unencumbered by GST such as Amazon, the rise of ebooks, and a drop-off in book-buying. Also they have had to absorb bad debts from the collapse of Red Group, the former owner of Whitcoulls.
Despite the challenges, Chapman said the industry remains in good health, and in the run-up to the Frankfurt Book Fair ran a measuring tape to gauge the industry's size and success in preparation to front the German press.
It was a task that was easier said than done.
The association estimates annual total book sales to New Zealanders to be running at about $350 million, but that is an estimate because giant retailer Whitcoulls, now owned by the Norman family, keeps its sales close to its chest and many books are imported via the likes of Amazon and the Book Depository, which also do not share their figures, though Kiwi online retailer Fishpond does.
Similarly, there are no comprehensive figures on how much foreign earnings the publishing industry generates for New Zealand, though the export value of books and rights is probably in the vicinity of $100m, Chapman says. Last year alone, the rights to an estimated 600 titles were sold abroad.
It's a number the industry feels pretty good about, Chapman said, but the Frankfurt Book Fair, which runs for five days from October 10 to October 14, offers the chance for a multi-year improvement on that.
About 60 New Zealand authors will be heading to the show, and Chapman is hoping that the spotlight in Germany will result in greater notice of Kiwi talent from surrounding nations and set up a ripple effect that will be felt for a few years.
But he says it is wrong to think of the book fair as being a purely literary event, especially for the guest of honour.
"One of the challenges has been to get New Zealanders to understand this is not just a book industry show," Chapman said.
Not only is the show one of Europe's biggest cultural events, it is now a place where books and film meet, and for the guest of honour it goes wider than that.
New Zealand is using it as a platform to demonstrate its talents in a number of areas including film, tourism, performing arts, as well as wine and food. The country will have a prominent place at other festivals, which are being colonised as part of a programme of events to capitalise on the book fair.
In August, New Zealand will have booked out about 100 metres of the food and stage strip running along the embankment of Frankfurt's river Main as part of its annual museum festival, said Chapman. It'll also have a big presence in film festivals in Berlin, Munich, Cologne and Frankfurt.
Germans have something of an idealised view of this country, Chapman said.
It seems a place where Germans imagine they could come and kick back, and that space New Zealand fills in the German collective psyche was a big part of why it is this year's guest of honour.
Actually, there is an untold story to how New Zealand bagged the guest of honour spot.
"What really happened was that the book fair had not had many English-speaking guests of honour, and they were particularly keen on getting one."
Australia and New Zealand made up the shortlist, but the Australian publishing industry dropped the ball.
"We responded more actively and more positively than Australia," Chapman says.
The timing is good. New Zealand publishing feels like it needs room to grow overseas.
"We used to think that books were recession-proof. That hasn't been true for some years since we were driven into recession by high interest rates prior to the GFC," said Chapman.
"The New Zealand market for print books held up until the last 12 months really, and it has really dropped off since then," he said.
The previous year print book sales were flat, but Chapman does not believe the "amateur futurologists" who see print books disappearing to be replaced by cheaper digital ebooks.
In America, some areas of publishing have seen 20 per cent drops in printed book sales as people have switched to ebooks.
But physical books remain important to readers who plan to keep and reread books, and also as gift items, which makes up a significant portion of book sales.
For New Zealand publishers, ebooks make for easier exports, and they mean publishers can earn from their back catalogues even when it is impossible to keep all their books in print.
They've had some help from Government grants getting ebooks made up of some of their back catalogues, and these are now available for purchase, but there is another challenge they'd really like Wellington to help them with: finding a way to bring the likes of Amazon in under the GST rules.
"For all New Zealand businesses selling to consumers to know that they have competitors that are substantially advantaged over them and for the Government to sit back and allow their tax base to be eroded is astonishing," Chapman said.
One of the challenges facing the publishing industry is a lack of hard data on sales and growth.
Exactly how many books are being imported from offshore e-tailers such as Amazon? How many ebooks are being sold – and at what prices and margins?
Adding to the uncertainty, the Whitcoulls chain withdrew from Nielsen Book Scan halfway through 2011. All of that has contributed to an apparent, but perhaps not real, decline in sales numbers.
For what it's worth, 9.7 million items were sold in 2010, according to Nielsen. That was up from 9.4m in 2009. But sales then fell to 8.1m in 2011 (not including Whitcoulls).
Total revenue fell from $243.6m to $193.2m from 2010 to 2011.
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The long-rumored Apple iPad, iSlate, iWhateveritsnameis Tablet PC is widely expected to make its debut in San Francisco on Jan. 27. Although Apple has never confirmed that such a device is in the works, many Apple/Mac newsgroups agree that the Apple Tablet is imminent. Steve Jobs has recently been overheard and quoted as stating that the Apple Tablet may be the “most important thing I ever do” that further ignites these rumors and newsgroup speculation.
Many Apple newsgroup subscribers agree that Apple wants to change the way television, news, and books are distributed once and for all, and it’s going to use its soon to be unveiled tablet to try and do it. It already has seen this success with both the iPod becoming THE mp3 player of choice, not to mention the grand army of iPhone aficionados. With an Apple tablet, it may finally put the nail in the coffin as the mobile computing device of choice for many.
Lots of guesses are being put forward as a name: iTablet, iSlate, iPad. If it is the latter, Apple has a quick fight to the finish line to win. Whilst a company called Slate Computing — thought to be a front company for Apple — registered the iPad trademark in Canada, Europe and Hong Kong in July last year, Fujitsu still owns the iPad trademark for handheld computing in the U.S., although appeared less than committed to keeping it. Apple has now filed three petitions to extend the deadline to February 28 to take the name away from Fujitsu. Apple has until that date to submit evidence it is the rightful owner of the iPad trademark.
Unique to USENET newsgroups, mac newsgroups have been posting that this would not be the first time Steve Jobs attempted such a thing. Mac communities in nearby parallel universes have been playing with Apple tablets since the Reagan administration. The tablet was called “Bashful,” in reference to the dwarf in the fairy tale Snow White. Bashful was created alongside the Apple extension of the Snow White industrial-design language that Apple used from 1984 to 1990. This past week, Frog Design released pictures of the “Bashful” tablet, which was on the drawing boards in 1983, but never made it to the shipping stage. The Bashful looks like the top half of a PowerBook Duo combined with a keyboard stolen from an Apple IIc; a stylus rounded out the Bashful’s user interface. Variations of the Bashful tablet included one with an attached keyboard and one with a floppy-disk drive and a handle for portability. Some of the tablet prototypes included a stylus. And one concept even had an attached phone. Unfortunately, we’ll never know how the Bashful would have done on the market; Steve Jobs was more interested in another computer called the “Macintosh” at the time, and relations between Apple and Frog Design broke down when Jobs left Apple in 1985.
No matter what form it finally takes, an Apple tablet is likely to have a drastic impact on the media world. Apple’s vision is supposedly of a tablet in every home—a shared device between family members that allow them to quickly check their e-mail or read the news. The device, which will sport a virtual keyboard, could have virtual sticky notes to leave for other family members or user identification using the device’s built-in camera. Although it’s unclear whether these features will make it into the final product, they do seem to have a family-oriented focus. The company has also been working with EA to show off the tablet’s gaming potential. No word on what applications will be able to run with it or if it will even be running an existing OS X operating system. Because of the lack of details of both the software as well as what capabilities of storage leaves little to speculate about a possible compatible newsgroup newsreader for the device.


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As the blog mentioned in the past, there’s no doubt that the green trend is very much prevalent within the cleaning chemicals market although they prefer to call it more as sustainability. Within my first day at the Soap and Detergent Association (SDA) meeting held in Florida, a sustainability wall postered with consumer product goods and chemical companies profiling their sustainability agenda for the cleaning market, greeted my arrival when I registered for the event.
Based on several interviews this week, one theme is always remarked upon: sustainability within the cleaning market is here to stay for the long run with the chemical industry as it’s backbone.
Dow Chemical, which rolled out its second generation biodegradable surfactants this week for hard surface cleaning products (e.g. kitchen cleaners) remarked that without the chemical industry, consumers will not be able to get sustainable, eco-friendly and cost-conscious cleaning products that really works.
“When you see these companies launching these types of products such as Clorox’s GreenWorks or Church & Dwight’s concentrated Arm & Hammer Essentials Cleaner and Degreaser, you have to assume that chemical companies are behind them working to make these things happen,” says a Dow official.
Chemical companies such as US-based Dow, France-based Rhodia and France-based Evonik all noted the increasing customer demand last year for more sustainable cleaning chemicals without the previous trade-offs in performance that is usually associated with “green cleaners.”
“It has to be eco-friendly, cost competitive to traditional brands, and has comparative or even better performance or else consumers will not buy them,” another chemical company official remarked.
An official from Evonik noted the increasing drive of major consumer product goods (CPG) companies toward compacted and more concentrated laundry detergents not only in packaging but in detergent forms such as tablets or gels. Dow Chemical said that those types take serious chemical reformulations to make them work.
Procter & Gamble (P&G) officials agreed on that statement and recalled the busted launched of their detergent tablet offerings several years ago in the US.
Interests in compacted detergents have risen back because of its lesser carbon footprint – less packaging, less water use, and more energy-efficient in production and transportation, but now with the same or improved performance compared to their bulkier counterparts.
P&G said they have already saved between 25% and 40% of the packaging that they used (depending on the detergent type) when they moved all of their liquid laundry detergents in the US and Europe to compacted forms. This was made possible by serious chemical reformulation.
So I hope environmental activists can give the chemical industry some breaks and maybe even a little recognition that without them, people will not be able to maintain their health, good hygiene and cleanliness and be eco-friendly at the same time.
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Uber put Ola and other local on-demand taxi services in India under intense pressure in a price war after entering India in 2013. TaxiForSure found it hard to keep up, so a merger works out better for...
The company claims to work as a courier provider for over 300 merchants in Singapore including as Lazada, Guardian, Pupsik Studio, and Love Bonito.
In this guest post, Indonesian tech luminary Andi S. Boediman explains what Indonesia needs to do to build on its vast market and huge potential.
Working women, young mothers, and retail outlets all benefit from AirCloset's wear-and-return model.
Grofers riders zip around on two-wheelers picking up goods from local retailers and delivering them to customers, while the app tracks orders.
Rapyuta aims to create a cloud infrastructure that will allow all robots connected to it to share each others experiences. It is a spin-off from the EU-funded RoboEarth project.
The rapid increase in smartphone usage is driving traction for TinyOwl and other food ordering apps, which busy professionals in urban India find very useful.
The 10-month old company has netted its second funding round and serves 600,000 users.
SquadRun gets mobile ‘players’ to do crowdsourced jobs, bags funding from founders of Zomato, Slideshare
It’s a business model that seems well-suited for a large, increasingly mobile population in India. Companies like Freecharge, which rewards users for using the platform to top-up their phones, have sh...
This bro-sis duo returned to India to bring ecommerce to industrial buyers, and they just raised $2M
From hydraulic grinders to boring bars, industries large and small can get their supplies online on IndustryBuying.com, instead of doing the rounds of wholesale hardware markets.
Cheers adds a new dimension to social messaging: aside from texts and multimedia content, users can send ‘gifts’ - or their equivalent amount - right into a friend’s digital wallet.
As China's web censorship piled on, the American entrepreneur behind Pay4bugs decided that Hong Kong would be a better base for his startup.
Crevo hit the black last year but founder Kensuke Shibata says the team left money on the table. He expects revenue to quadruple this year.
The island's answer to Fab and Gilt has carved out a space for itself amid a booming domestic ecommerce industry.
InternetOptics, the company behind Lensza, an Indonesia-based online contact lens retailer, announced today that it closed a round of seed funding from investors based in Indonesia, Singapore, and the...
Additionally, McClure gave pointers on how to build a startup, invest wisely, and build a startup ecosystem.
It has been a year since the 500 Startups Japan office closed, but Dave McClure thinks it might be time to change that.


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Hear from CIOs, CTOs, and other C-level and senior execs on data and AI strategies at the Future of Work Summit this January 12, 2022. Learn more
The city of San Francisco, Calif., will install electric vehicle charging stations in publicly-owned garages and at San Francisco International Airport by the end of the year that drivers can use for free until 2013.
The plan involves dropping around 90 charging stations across the city in the hopes of encouraging more residents to purchase electric cars and make them easier to use. Charging stations are already scattered across the city — drivers can find out where they are through Google Maps. The average cost to charge an electric car at a charging station is usually around $0.12 per kilowatt-hour — and most batteries carry a charge between 20 and 40 kilowatt-hours, meaning drivers will save around a whopping $3.
The charging stations are more beneficial for people who live outside the city and should actually encourage more electric car owners to make a commute into San Francisco. The stations will feature 110-volt and fast-charging 240-volt options — which can charge an electric car like the Nissan Leaf to an 80-percent charge in around 3 hours. So drivers can simply drop off their cars while they head off to work or visit the city and return to have a near-full or full charge to make it back out of the city.
Most electric cars are typically limited in their range. The Nissan Leaf, one of the cheapest electric cars at $33,000, can travel around 100 miles before needing a charge. Tesla Motors’ super-powered batteries last much longer, but the cars are significantly more expensive — the Roadster, for example, can travel around 200 miles but costs $109,000. That company’s next car, a sedan, will be less expensive and can travel up to 300 miles, but it will still be significantly more expensive than the Nissan Leaf.
Here are the garages in San Francisco that will feature free charging stations:
Civic Center garage
Ellis O’Farrell garage
Fifth & Mission garage
General Hospital garage
Golden Gateway garage
Japan Center garage
Mission Bartlett garage
Moscone Center garage
North Beach garage
Performing Arts garage
Pierce Lombard garage
Polk Bush garage
Portsmouth Square garage
San Francisco International Airport garages
St. Mary’s Square garage
1600 Mission Street garage
Stockton Sutter garage
Union Square garage
Vallejo Street garage
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iOS 15.6 is now out, and it has all of the fixes and new updates for your iPhone.
Apple also updates the iPadOS, macOS, WatchOS, and TVOS software.
This week, Apple updated its devices with iOS 15.6 and a few other software updates. The new iPhone software fixes bugs, like one that made the phone think its storage was full when it wasn’t, and adds a new live sports feature to the TV app.
People can now pause, rewind, and fast forward in the TV app, as well as restart live sports games that are already in progress. iOS 15.6 also has a long list of updates that make the iPhone safer.
Here is what Apple announced on Wednesday:
iOS 15.6 has new features, fixes for bugs, and security updates.
The TV app now lets you pause, rewind, or fast-forward live sports games that are already going on.
Fixes a problem where Settings might still say that the device’s storage is full even though there is space.
Fixes a problem that could cause braille devices to slow down or stop responding when reading text in Mail. Fixes a problem in Safari where a tab could go back to a previous page.
This could be the last update to iOS 15 before the company’s next mobile software, iOS 16, and the heavily rumored iPhone 14 come out to the public. The next version of iOS, which is now in public beta, will add a number of new features, such as the ability to edit and unsend messages, a new lock screen that can be customized, changes to notifications, and new versions of Wallet and Apple Pay.
On Wednesday, Apple also put out iPadOS 15.6, MacOS 12.5, WatchOS 8.7, and TVOS 15.6. iPadOS 15.6 and MacOS 12.5 got the same TV app update for live sports as iOS 15.6, as well as security updates. WatchOS 8.7 fixed bugs and TVOS 15.6 got better performance and stability, according to Apple.
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INFOTECH: Mobile Engagement Strategies for a Smarter Future
Recent Gauteng Business News
Just as Forrester predicts that, by 2020, weÂ’ll be living in a world dominated by mobile smart devices, the analyst firm also suggests that, in just four years, there will be a chief mobility officer overseeing enterprise mobile strategies. This isnÂ’t just some empty prediction. ItÂ’s based on considerable data released in a report titled Â‘Mobile Is The New Face Of Engagement,Â’ which highlights the growing popularity of mobile phones and the subsequent empowerment they will bring.
The past few years have seen a massive upswing in mobile usage, leading to increased interest in its potential on the part of business. However, at present, mobile is generally seen as nothing more than an alternative channel from which to reach customers, says Gerald Naidoo, CEO of specialist technology consulting company Logikal Consulting. This, he says, is short sighted, and those managing mobile engagement strategies will need to shift their goals.
Â“As more people begin to search, browse and make purchases from mobile devices, the goals of mobile engagement become less about a brandÂ’s presence, and more about how customers can be empowered to take action,Â” he says. Â“If you succeed in making up applications that are of direct benefit to your target audience, any company can increase its business exposure and profits through this alternative channel.Â”
Websites Need to Mobile-Friendly
Understanding that the worldÂ’s gone mobile, Logikal Consulting is leveraging its applications portfolio to develop business mobile apps through a partnership with a major international mobile solutions provider. Â“Great mobile apps are architected from the user experience in, not the database schema out. As a result, design, development, and governance processes must fit appropriately with mobile requirements. Our experience in this arena led to the partnership, which will allow us to enable productivity through mobility for all our clients,Â” Naidoo explains.
Kundan Kumar, Logikal ConsultingÂ’s Group Service Delivery Director adds that while mobile applications and services are still largely associated with consumer services, businesses that are using custom mobile applications are seeing great returns. Â“The banks have embraced mobile technology to great effect, as can be seen through the mobile banking applications out there. Those progressive companies that are moving forward on to the mobile platform understand that the world has changed. Before, when people wanted to send mail, take pictures or do any online tasks, they had to go to the Internet to do so. Now, Smartphones have made all of these services easily accessible.Â”
The Benefits of Mobile Smartphones
And nowhere have the benefits of Smartphones been appreciated more than across the African continent, where traditional Internet connectivity remains sporadic. With a footprint in over 15 African countries, Logikal Consulting will be providing specialised, localised application development for Africa. Â“Localisation will not only entail creating the apps in local languages, but will ensure that businesses can interact directly in the context of their daily lives and real-time workflows of customers, partners, and employees,Â” says Naidoo.
One billion consumers will have Smartphones by 2016. US consumers alone will own 257 million Smartphones and 126 million tablets. In 2016, 350 million employees will use Smartphones Â— 200 million will bring their own. Business spending on mobile projects will grow 100% by 2015.
A Smartphone is not just a phone, not just a smaller screen, and not just an extension of oneÂ’s personal computer. Â“Mobile is the flash point for a much more holistic, far-reaching change. Businesses must be aware of the implications and be prepared for a world in which customers interact directly with the organisation in their moments of decision, partners employ tools in the context of their daily workflow, employees work, collaborate, and make key decisions anywhere on any device, and offline products get APIs and mobile app extensions. The easiest way to do this is to have tailor-made apps for your business,Â” Naidoo says. Â“Right now itÂ’s all aboard, or see you later. If you havenÂ’t thought carefully about your mobile development strategy, you need to.Â”
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Russian Group Stand at Kind + Jugend 2017 in Germany
Kind + Jugend 2017, held in Cologne, Germany, will have the group stand of Russian manufacturers. It will be first time that Expocentre and the Russian Export Centre arrange it.
Kind + Jugend is an international trade show of baby and toddler products. The show boasts over 50 years of history. This year it will run on 14–17 September to once again bring together professionals of the children’s industry from all over the world. More than 1,200 exhibitors from 46 countries will show their latest collections, innovations and concept designs. It is expected to welcome more than 22,000 business visitors from 100 countries.
The Russian group stand will occupy more than 100 sq m in one of the halls of Koelnmesse. The participating companies will include such leaders of the Russian industry for children as Avalon Production (Tatarstan), Scientific Education (Moscow), Rosmetall (Samara), ROXY (St. Petersburg), Edelveis Trading House (Moscow), Zolotoy Gus (Moscow region), Votkinskaya Promyshlennaya Kompaniya (Udmurtia), IQ (Moscow), HIZ Trading House (Moscow region), the Association of Child Car Seat Manufacturers Prioritet (Ryazan).
Russian companies will be offered special associated events and meetings with German and other western businessmen.


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Top Business Economists Predict U.S. Could Face Recession in 2020
President Donald Trump’s major tax cuts will be a boon to the U.S. economy throughout 2018 and 2019, but the president’s other policies could lead to a new recession in 2020, according to a group of top business economists.
The latest quarterly outlook by the National Association for Business Economists states that its panel of 45 economists believe that the nation’s gross domestic product will grow by 2.8% this year, a decrease from the panel’s prediction in March of 2.9% GDP growth, according to the Associated Press.
The panelists forecasted that the nation’s GDP would grow by 2.7% in 2019.
However, the NABE panel also stated that the growth could be cut short by an upcoming recession, with two-thirds of the economists predicting that a recession will start by the end of 2020 and 18% believing that a decline could begin as soon as the end of 2019.
One of the biggest causes for the decline according to the economists are Trump’s current trade policies; three-fourths of the panelists predict that Trump’s imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from the Canada, Mexico, and the European Union, as well as tariffs on Chinese imports, will trigger a global trade war as the nations look to retaliate.


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French restaurant owner says third party delivery is not the right fit for his Parisian cafe brand.
Carl's Jr. and Hardee's are also launching their first Happy Hour program featuring one item: the double charbroiled slider for $1. Happy Hour is from 2-5 p.m. daily.
Kroger, the parent company of Ralphs, announced plans Wednesday to debut "scan and go" checkout technology that rivals Amazon Go.
When they nestle into their fireside wooden chair, they plan to dine on their favorite meal: the meatloaf sandwich.
Social media appears to already be in love with Taco Bell's Nacho Fries. Here's what fans have to say:
Costco for millennials, Boxed, offers free delivery of bulk items in California, including spirits. No membership fees.
Taco Bell is crossing over into burger territory by adding $1 french fries to its value menu at the end of the month.
Cracker Barrel, a staple along highways in the South and Midwest, reveals opening date for first California restaurant.
Taco Bell is doubling down on its dollar menu, saying it plans to add at least 20 more items to the value program over the course of 2018.
The World Series hasn't even started, yet Taco Bell is already making plans to feed America free tacos.


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Media buyers expect digital advertising to overtake commercial television ad revenue this year, making it the country’s biggest advertising medium.
IPG Mediabrands Australia is forecasting digital ad spend to grow 18.5 per cent to $4.7 billion in 2014, compared with the total television ad market, which it predicts will grow at 3.5 per cent to $4.2 billion.
“We are expecting digital to become the number one medium in Australia, which was a mantle previously held by TV,” IPG chief investment officer Victor Corones told The Australian Financial Review.
This view is supported by Goldman Sachs, which has forecast digital to take a 36 per cent of the ad market in 2014, compared with television’s 32 per cent.
IPG Mediabrands has forecast an “explosion” in mobile advertising over the next five years. “There is a complete disconnect between the time spent with mobile devices and the ad dollars being directed to the sector. ” Corones says. “It’s just going accelerate more and more as publishers discover better advertising solutions.”
Mobiles are a personal device for most consumers, meaning advertisers have to add value through products such as applications to be effective, Corones adds. “Interruptions are a lot harder to achieve on personal devices so if you’re adding value, you’re more likely to get more receptivity from consumers. It’s obviously an education process for advertisers.”
Another way that brands are moving away from interruptive advertising is through content marketing, a trend that sites like Buzzfeed are seeking to ride.
OMD Australia national head of digital Stuart Bailey says social media spending is dominated by Facebook but he expects Twitter to take more share as it becomes more established in the market.“The massive proliferation of technology platforms (PMD’s) that plug into Facebook and better enable advertisers and agencies to run smarter more efficient and targeted campaigns will continue to inflate the spend in this area,” he said.
Corones says many advertisers had erred in preferring digital mediums to print. “Its about strategically understanding what are your objectives, and what is the role of print and digital,” he says. “When you understand that you probably can find a role for print.”


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A family-run chain of steakhouses will soon open its third restaurant on Gorseinon High Street near Swansea, creating 40 new jobs.
Seagers Restaurants repurchased the high-street premises with the support of six-figure funding from NatWest. The building was previously owned by the Seagers family before being sold and rebranded as The Riverside Inn. The family have since repurchased the venue which provided a perfect renovation opportunity.
The project, which represents an investment in excess of £600,000, includes an extensive refurbishment of the former pub into a relaxed steakhouse, including a state-of-the-art kitchen, stylish dining area and private dining space.
Around 40 new jobs have been created as a result of the expansion, including front of house and kitchen roles, with Seagers now employing close to 100 people across its South Wales restaurants.
Seagers specialise in offering unpretentious, quality food, and have already built a reputation for excellent service in Llanelli and Waunarlwydd, where its two restaurants – ‘The Bryngwyn’ and ‘The Grillhouse’ – operate. The award-winning restaurants have picked up various accolades including ‘Gastro-Pub’ of the year for The Grillhouse, as voted by the readers of the Evening Post and Swansea Life magazine.
Chris Seager, Director of Seagers, said:
“The opening of our third restaurant brings great food and our friendly, relaxed atmosphere to another local area. Thanks to the support from NatWest, we were able to purchase the premises, allowing us to continue to expand our presence in South Wales. We look forward to welcoming new diners and familiar faces to our Seagers restaurant in Gorseinon.”
Natasha Hopkins, NatWest Relationship Manager, said:
“NatWest supports growing regional business like Seagers, across an extensive variety of sectors including the hospitality industry. With the funding we have provided, Chris and the team have been able to grow the Seagers’ brand and take its offering to even more diners in South Wales. I look forward to seeing the business thrive in the coming months.”


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More than a billion pounds of pesticides are used in the U.S. every year, according to the most recent data from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Most of those chemicals are used in agriculture. As a result, we’re consuming them daily along with the fruits, vegetables, grains, and other plants we eat.
But there’s a lot of confusion about where pesticides are found, and the role they play in the health of people and the planet. Understanding the truth behind these five common misconceptions can help you make the best choices for you and your family.
1. Organic Produce Has Concerning Pesticide Residues, Too
Reality: When CR analyzed data from the USDA Pesticide Data Program, which tests for 450 pesticides, we found that the vast majority of organic produce had very low or no pesticide residues. (See our special report “Stop Eating Pesticides,” which includes ratings of fruits and vegetables.)
While some pesticides are permitted under USDA organic regulations, pesticide is a broad term used to refer to a range of substances from those with low toxicity to those that are very toxic even in small amounts. In general, the regulations ban most synthetic pesticides—which are of greatest concern—and allow for the use of some natural ones.
The National Organic Standards Board makes recommendations about which substances are permitted in organic farming. Chemicals are evaluated for potential adverse effects on people, animals, and the environment and approved only if they’re judged to be compatible with a system of sustainable agriculture.
But even those pesticides are used as a last resort. Controlling pests (insects, weeds, and plant diseases) without synthetic chemicals is one of the basic tenets of organic farming. Farmers must follow integrated pest management plans that rely on natural methods, such as crop rotation and other methods to maintain healthy soil, and use pesticides only if these methods fail.
2. If It’s Not Organic, It’s Loaded With Pesticides
Reality: Eating organic is just one way to avoid eating harmful pesticides. Fortunately, there are plenty of nonorganic fruits and vegetables that are safer options. Out of 49 fruits and vegetables items CR rated for pesticide risk, we determined that 31 nonorganic versions, either domestic or imported, are similar to organic in that they’re grown with fewer and/or safer pesticides.
And in many cases, for nonorganic produce items that do pose a higher risk, there’s a less risky substitute: sweet potatoes instead of regular potatoes, for example, or broccoli or asparagus instead of green beans.
3. Washing Fruits and Vegetables Gets Rid of Pesticides
Reality: Washing doesn’t eliminate all residues. Under the USDA’s Pesticide Data Program guidelines, produce is washed before it’s tested, and pesticide residues are still found. Still, studies show that washing produce in water removes significant amounts of chemicals, says Michael Hansen, PhD, a senior scientist at CR. We recommend washing in cold running water for 15 to 20 seconds.
A few studies have found that other methods can get rid of more pesticides than water alone, but they’re limited to certain fruits and vegetables and to certain pesticides, so it’s not clear how widely applicable they are.
For instance, one study found that soaking apples in a solution of water and baking soda for 12 to 15 minutes completely removed two types of pesticides. In another, 20 minutes of soaking in either a vinegar solution or salt water removed more pesticides from cabbage than 20 minutes of soaking in tap water. Neither method is particularly practical, Hansen says, and they may affect the flavor of the fruit or vegetable. But if you want to take an extra step, they may help.
4. Peeling Gets Rid of Pesticides
Reality: While peeling helps, it isn’t a complete solution. In the USDA’s PDP, before it’s tested, produce is prepared the way many consumers would. That means peeling items such as bananas and citrus, and removing rinds from foods like melons. But some pesticides penetrate beyond the skin or peel and into the flesh of the fruit or vegetable, while other pesticides can be taken up by the plant while it grows. For example, nonorganic imported watermelon received only a Fair score in CR’s ratings because it still contained residues of pesticides that our experts consider potentially harmful.
5. With Pesticides, ‘The Dose Makes the Poison’
Reality: The adage “the dose makes the poison” is a basic tenet of toxicology that means that higher doses of substances cause worse adverse effects. And it’s certainly true that high doses of pesticides cause harm.
The EPA says, for example, that between 1,800 and 3,000 acute pesticide-related injuries or illnesses are reported annually among farmers and farmworkers. But the phrase is often used as an explanation for why small amounts of pesticides, even highly toxic ones, on food aren’t a concern.
In fact, there is evidence that over time, small doses of some pesticides can have harmful effects on health. That’s especially the case for those that can disrupt the endocrine system, which produces and regulates hormones in your body.
And the current limits on the amounts of pesticides that are permitted on food don’t always take endocrine effects into account. When the EPA sets limits on the amounts of various substances allowed in food, it bases those limits on laboratory studies that test for the lowest dose of a pesticide that doesn’t cause harm in an animal. But studies of endocrine-disrupting chemicals have suggested that these substances may lead to harm at levels lower than allowed by regulators.
When the exposure occurs matters too. Infants and young children are especially at risk. Pesticide exposure can affect children’s development at many stages, starting in the womb, and have lifelong effects
For example, research by Michele La Merrill, PhD, an associate professor at U.C. Davis, suggests there is a link between early-life exposure to DDT, an insecticide that’s now banned in the U.S., and obesity in adulthood. DDT may reduce the function of the hormone insulin, which instructs the body to process the glucose in your blood after eating a meal.
Some now-middle-aged adults in the U.S. were exposed to DDT during a “critical window of development,” La Merrill says. That might be contributing to the increase in rates of obesity and overweight that we see today.
And although DDT is no longer used in the U.S., a wide variety of pesticides that have been associated with endocrine-disrupting effects are still employed in food production today.
That’s why CR’s scientists think that several suspected endocrine-disrupting pesticides, which we found contributed greatly to the risk from a number of fruits and vegetables, should be banned. Find out more about those chemicals here.
Consumer Reports is an independent, nonprofit organization that works side by side with consumers to create a fairer, safer, and healthier world. CR does not endorse products or services, and does not accept advertising. Copyright © 2020, Consumer Reports, Inc.


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The Holz-Handwerk four-day trade show brings a record numbers of visitors and is major success for SCM. The most important international trade show for professionals in the door and window manufacturing sector attracted over 111,000 visitors to Nuremberg between March 21 and 24.
SCM’s elegant and refined blue and white booth with over 1300 m2 of space was one of the most crowded during the event and recorded an exponential increase in visits made by business professionals and enthusiasts, including many young students, eager to discover the latest industry trends. Also exponential, compared to the 2016 edition, was the increase in orders, negotiations and contacts, all of which is in line with the strong growth being witnessed by SCM on the German market: an increase in the order backlog of 35 percent in just the last year, which has also led to a 20% increase in the hiring of new technical staff.
Nuremberg saw SCM present Maestro Digital Systems, leading the way with new digital solutions, which demonstrate how the activities of door and window manufacturers can become increasingly smart, simple and fast, regardless of the operator's know-how, ensuring consistent quality, versatility and precision.
Among the dozens of technological solutions exhibited at the trade show, the machining centres specially developed for door and window manufacturers attracted the greatest interest, in particular the new accord 42 fx. Also of interest, the range of morbidelli solutions for panel drilling, milling and edgebanding. Visitors were curious to discover the new finishing equipment as well as the new range of presses launched by SCM at Nuremberg to respond to all market categories
Holz-Handwerk will be back in 2020 for its next edition, running from March 18 to 21.


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Hays workers train their replacements as company offshores work
Recruitment giant Hays has laid off more than 100 staff and given their jobs to workers in India who they recently helped to train.
The disclosure comes just weeks after tea-maker Twinings sparked outrage when it emerged that 263 sacked workers at its factory on Tyneside were being asked to train their Polish replacements.
In an apparently cynical move from a company whose business is helping others to recruit staff, its own employees at Hays House in New Malden, south-west London, were asked to help induct visiting workers from India in office functions such as payroll and credit control.
Training: Hays employees were asked to help induct visiting workers from India in office functions such as payroll and credit control
It was only later that the staff were told that many of them were being made redundant and their jobs would be done instead by the very people they had helped to train.
A relative of one redundant worker said: 'They trained these people in good faith. It is dreadfully wrong.'
Staff were initially told their jobs were under threat in a letter from John Harrington, shared service centre director.
It said: 'The redundancies may be necessary because of the continued tough economic climate, the implementation of our new back office systems and a restructuring of the finance shared service centre, which includes offshoring some activities to our service delivery centre in India.'
A spokesman for Hays said: 'When offshoring work, it is not unusual for the people carrying out the work to be involved in the knowledge transfer process.'
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Scottsdale’s getting a little more country this summer with the opening of Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row in the swanky suburb’s downtown entertainment district.
The 5,200-square-foot music venue will open July 4 at 4420 N. Saddlebag Trail.
The new concept comes from Grammy-nominated country music star Dierks Bentley and Riot Hospitality Group, which also operates El Hefe Super Macho Taqueria, The Lodge and American Junkie in Scottsdale.
Whiskey Row’s menu will feature American gastropub offerings, and officials say all items will be made from scratch in house, using organic meats and locally farmed produce.
The venue also will feature special booths with beer and liquor taps for diners to pour their own beers and shots.
Of course, a music venue wouldn’t be complete without a stage. Whiskey Row will have a 400-square-foot stage that will hang from the ceiling directly above the bar. It will feature a 360-degree view of performers. The venue is expected to host national and local country artists weekly. Even Bentley himself will perform on occasion.
“Opening a bar in my hometown is something I’ve always wanted to do,” Bentley said. “These guys have spent a lot of time and put a lot of thought into really cool details that will make it the perfect place to watch a game or listen to music or just get a few drinks with friends.”
In addition to the food, drinks, and music, Whiskey Row will feature some technological advancements not usually seen in bars. The venue will boast a state-of-the-art high-definition video system managed with an iPad to control video and sound wirelessly from anywhere in the bar. Also, iPhone and USB charging stations will be available at the bar.
The venue has been an idea three years in the making, said Ryan Hibbert, co-owner of RHG.
“Dierks and I had a vision of creating a fun and unique new country venue so we teamed up and developed a great place that offers amazing food, great hospitality and live music,” he said. “This is the first of a national brand Riot Hospitality Group is looking to aggressively expand in the U.S.”
Whiskey Row will be open weekdays from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. and weekends from 10 a.m. to 2 a.m.


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This week, the ESA revealed that Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft are all adopting new policies that will require games on their platforms to disclose drop rates of loot boxes. The Big N has now issued a statement about the initiative.
As shared by Eurogamer, Nintendo said:
“At Nintendo, ensuring that our customers can make informed choices when they play our games is very important. As part of our ongoing efforts in this area, Nintendo will require disclosure of drop rates in Nintendo Switch games that offer randomised virtual items for purchase, such as loot boxes. This requirement will apply to all new games and includes updates to current games that add loot boxes through in-game purchases. We also offer tools like our Nintendo Switch Parental Controls mobile app, which empowers parents to choose what works for their family, including managing in-game purchases and setting playtime limits.”
Nintendo is expected to implement required disclosures in 2020.
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Egypt's military-led government said it was "reviewing" its strategic relationships with the U.S. and other Western governments critical of its crackdown on Islamists, deepening the divide between the Obama administration and Cairo.
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This Company is Taking a Big Step in Saving the Environment by Taking This Drastic Step
We all hope that this is not just a phase or a case of greenwashing, but a lot of businesses are switching their energy-efficient green lights on for the reason that consumers, who are mostly the poor millennials, are getting more conscious of the needs of Mother Nature.
A Cone Communications research said that costumers tend to like a company more if they are campaigning for environmental and social issues that they believe in. If you’re living inside a cave for the last couple of years, then you haven’t heard much about the modern revolution there is about changing the ways of the buyers that greatly impact our environment.
It is prevalent especially in social media where there are influencers who, instead of promoting endless products and urging people to buy more, are endorsing sustainable and smart shopping and are using their platforms for the benefit of our surroundings.
800,000 Tonnes of Plastic Every Year
Big companies are trying to keep up with this mentality revolution and to be on the good side of the story – Tesco may just be one of them. The UK retail giant declared that by late next year, it will decrease the use of non-recyclable plastic by eliminating 1 billion of it from the grocer’s brand-name products.
Supermarkets are one of the leading sources of plastic waste in our environment with Greenpeace holding 10 of Great Britain’s highest-earning grocery retailers responsible for more than 800,000 tonnes of plastic being thrown out annually in our environment.
To kick-start this campaign against plastic, Tesco focused on implementing packaging simplification. The company said that it will make drastic changes with its exclusive products’ packaging, like omitting the plastic pouches for clothes and greeting cards; limiting cereal and yogurt lids to one; using paper packing for the produce, breads, and pastry products; eradicating plastic wares like trays, sporks, and straws from ready-to-eat/drink goods and more.
Remove, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
If the consumers were constantly reminded of reuse, refuse, reduce, recycle, Tesco, on the other hand, promises to practice remove, reduce, reuse, recycle by getting rid of unnecessary and excessive packaging of their products.
The supermarket colossal, owning 27% of UK grocery market shares, also assured that they will also be working with their suppliers to follow their lead and to try to reduce the use of plastic to their extent and recycle and reuse also those that can still be reused.
Teaming Up with WWF
Last year, Tesco also teamed up with WWF, one of the world’s top green organizations, to champion an effort in minimizing the ecological damage done by the supermarket by half, answering the call for sustainable food sources.
This four-year collaboration aims to create an initiative in the food sector by making them more conscious about their products — from factories to landfills — by simplifying their packaging to lessen the use of plastic and improving the welfare of their employees, especially those in the lowest ranks. This partnership also aims to promote awareness to the consumers by providing them smart options and advising them to only buy what they can finish.
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Lego bricks are getting cozy with the isPhone and other Apple devices in the latest incarnation of the Mindstorms robotics kit.
Lego is set to announce Monday that a new, $350 Mindstorms EV3 kit will have the ability to talk to iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches through Bluetooth wireless connections. That means Lego builders can use the devices as remote controls for their robots, or create simple programs that are then sent to the robots to control their actions.
Lego said the kit will go on sale in the second half of the year.
Remote control was already possible with Android smartphones and the most recent Mindstorms kit, the NXT. Apple devices didn't work because the kit lacked a chip that would identify the Lego gadget to Apple devices.
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The European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance (www.ESSNA.com) will be represented at Food Matters Live in London in November 2014. This important new health and nutrition forum will see Chair Dr Adam Carey and Vice Chair Martin Cheifetz speaking on the regulation of sports food and compliance on 19th November.
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Amazon might take over another aspect of your life - messaging
17 July, 2017, 20:45 | Author: Devin Moran
Anytime by Amazon seems to be an all-in-one feature rich service that could even rival social networks. The claim comes fromAFTV News, which got its hands on slides that describe the proposed service, now called "Anytime", that are being used by the company to survey customers on which features they find most important in a messaging app.
As if the likes of Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Wechat and such aren't enough, we could soon be tempted with anothermessaging app from Amazon. It also has the ability to keep chats private and encrypt important information like bank account details.
Rumoured to be called Anytime, the app will allow users to chat without the need for a phone number. The e-commerce giant is working on a messaging app, to give its users features which the social media platforms offer its users. Before you debate on whether anothermessaging app is needed or not. Chime was loved by many and many people switched to Chime, due to new features leaving Skype behind. The survey denotes that the app might be highly customizable with options to add filters and special effects to photos and videos along with changing the colour and background of the conversations.
Some reports are claiming that Amazon wants to make Anytime the one and only app when it comes to communication.
If at all Amazon decides to launch it in India, then I am sure it is going to have UPI integrated into its system.
In May Amazon's Echo allowed users to place and receive calls and messages from one Alexa-enabled device to another using voice commands. There are countless other companies that have carved niches for themselves in the mobile messaging arena. According to the image shared, here is what the Amazon's new messaging app- Anytime could be like. If that tech giant can't make a dent, it's even less clear how Amazon thinks it can. The idea of this app is to let users shop from Amazon, so privacy will be a major concern.
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Chain CEO Deepak Thapliyal officially offered CryptoPunk #5822 for 9,000 ETH today. He bought it for 8,000 ETH on February 12, when 8,000 ETH was worth $23.7 million.
Earlier in February, NFT community was stirred up by the news that he spent 8,000 ETH (equivalent to $23.7 million at that time) to pick up this NFT. This huge amount broke the last record of transaction value in ETH and USD. While Thapliyal may be at a loss, the previous owner made a profit of $23.7 million on the sale.
The floor prices of NFT collections could not continue to reverse the market storm as many recessions embraced, with some projects dropping by 55%.
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I wonder how this will affect gamers....Pay-as-you-go Internet option draws scrutiny
By Cecilia Kang / The Washington Post
Published: December 08. 2010 4:00AM PST
WASHINGTON aEU" As details emerge about the Federal Communications CommissionaEU(tm)s controversial proposal for regulating Internet providers, a provision that would allow companies to bill customers for how much they surf the Web is drawing special scrutiny.
Analysts say pay-as-you-go Internet access could put the brakes on the burgeoning online video industry, handing a victory to cable and satellite TV providers.
The practice is legal, but had been discouraged by the FCC and by protests from consumers and public interest groups. But wireless companies are moving rapidly in that direction aEU" all major cell phone providers offer subscribers tiered data plans.
AT&T doesnaEU(tm)t offer flat-rate wireless plans for new customers.
And although FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said last week that his so-called Net-neutrality proposal would generally prohibit broadband service providers from tampering with Internet traffic, he added that he is open to new billing models that charge by how much data a user consumes.
Public interest groups say that trend will lead to a widening gap in Internet use in which the wealthiest would have the greatest access. And it could place limits on how much consumers use Web video, which eats up an enormous amount of bandwidth and could carry higher costs under a tiered pricing plan.
aEUoeThe question is how this will be enforced because it has the potential to do a lot of harm,aEU said Art Brodsky, communications director for Public Knowledge.
By blessing tiered pricing practices, Genachowski said he wanted to strike a balance between consumer protection and promoting aEUoenetwork investment and efficient use of networks, including measures to match price to cost such as usage-based pricing.aEU
An FCC official said in a statement that it would be a aEUoecop on the beataEU for aEUoearbitrary, anti-consumer, or anti-competitive tiered pricing plans.aEU
Vote set for Dec. 21
The FCC will vote Dec. 21 on the proposal, which could tilt fortunes toward cable and telecom companies battling to keep users from abandoning paid television services for new Internet options such as Apple TV and Hulu.com, analysts say. Those providers are struggling to manage overburdened networks that are seeing a surge in streaming video traffic from sites such as Netflix, which alone occupies 20 percent of all peak broadband traffic in the United States.
aEUoeIf people are forced to pay per kilobit, itaEU(tm)s like they are forced to pay per word of a book,aEU said Todd Weaver, chief executive of Ivi, a Seattle-based video streaming company.
Craig Moffett, an analyst at Bernstein Research, wrote in a note to investors Tuesday that the impact of pay-as-you-go broadband access aEUoecanaEU(tm)t be overstated.aEU
aEUoeUsage-based pricing will preserve, and even enhance, the economics of cableaEU(tm)s infrastructure aEU" even if consumers eventually get some, or even all, of their video content over the Web,aEU Moffett wrote.
At a UBS investors conference Tuesday, Comcast chief executive Neil Smit said the cable and Internet giant doesnaEU(tm)t have plans to move to usage based pricing. The firm, which is seeking regulatory approval for its merger with NBC Universal, has a cap on Internet use to 250 gigabytes aEU" enough data to provide hours of streaming video viewing.
Kyle McSlarrow, president of the trade group Nation Cable and Telecommunications Association, wrote in a blog post that usage-based pricing gives cable companies the flexibility they need to experiment with new business models.
aEUoeA usage-based pricing model, for instance, might help spur adoption by price-sensitive consumers at the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder,aEU he wrote.
It is also a way for cable firms to prevent users from aEUoecutting the cord,aEU or canceling their television services, analysts say.
GenachowskiaEU(tm)s draft proposal is vague on language about how broadband providers could charge partners to serve up their sites faster, according to one source at the FCC who has seen a draft of the rules. Known as aEUoepaid prioritization,aEU the FCCaEU(tm)s proposal could make it easier for Time Warner Cable, for example, to strike a deal to serve up faster downloads of Hulu.com.
With tiered usage caps, that could lead to higher Internet charges for subscribers of bandwidth-hogging sites such as Netflix.
aEUoeUsage-based pricing is a clear positive for cable, telecom and wireless providers, but it also might be a concern for Netflix,aEU said MF Global analyst Paul Gallant. aEUoeDepending on where the tiers were set, usage-based pricing on wire line broadband could end up deterring some people from dropping cable for over-the-top video.aEU
Netflix has argued against paid prioritization of services over the Web. In its third-quarter conference call, Chief Executive Reed Hastings said the company is watching usage pricing with concern.
aEUoeWe have some vulnerability depending on cap usage and what happens,aEU he said.


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Citing a statement by the company, news agency Reuters reported that the webcast scheduled for Monday (March 27) was switched to a closed-door meeting with the first batch of companies that are testing the product.
The company said that the change in format was in order to satisfy the “strong demand” from 120,000 companies that had applied to test Ernie bot. It also said that this would be the first of many closed-door meetings, Reuters reported.
Ernie bot features
In a separate report, the news agency said that Baidu shared some pre-recorded videos demoing its AI-powered chatbot’s industry-focused capabilities. The videos reportedly showed Ernie summarising financial statements and producing powerpoint presentations.
They also showed the chatbot producing travel itineraries “and virtual, human-like livestreamers that can advertise products using scripts tailored to the user’s needs.”
Additionally, there were some images shared by a Baidu spokesperson in a media-facing group on WeChat suggesting that the chatbot has a wider range of skills than previously displayed.
Ernie bot launch
Baidu CEO Robin Li introduced Ernie bot on March 16 as an answer to ChatGPT and demos displayed the Chinese chatbot’s different capabilities. However, the presentation was limited with brief videos showing Ernie carrying out mathematical calculations and generating a video and image with text prompts. The use of pre-recorded videos reportedly disappointed investors.
The technology industry has seen a boom in AI chatbots since ChatGPT made its debut in November last year. Microsoft invested billions of dollars in OpenAI, the company that developed ChatGPT, and launched Bing with AI capabilities. Recently, Google opened a limited preview of its AI chatbot Bard, which is powered by a large language model (LLM) LaMDA.


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Will smartwatches have as big an impact as smartphones?
Apple, Samsung, and other tech companies would very much appreciate it if you snatched up one of their rumored smartwatches. In Apple's case, critics have been clamoring for the company to roll out a new, market-shaking product for months, and breathless investors are hoping that the iWatch will be The Next Big Thing, especially now that the smartphone industry has more-or-less reached maturity.
Will smartwatches have the same paradigm-shifting impact as smartphones? Eh, probably not — or so says Skooks Pong, VP of technology at Synapse, which engineered the FuelBand for Nike.
As Sony can attest, the first few iterations of the smartwatch will be severely limited in their capabilities, mostly due to their tiny frames. "The wearables don't have enough power to do what a smartphone does today," Pong tells Business Insider. "You think about your iPhone or your Samsung Galaxy, you think about the type of content and what you do with that, I just don't see it happening in the next several years on your wrist."
One of the fundamental problems facing computerized bracelets is that the small parts necessary to create a tasteful, non-bulky gadget don't exist yet. While Moore's Law suggests that technology is always shrinking, it doesn't apply to one crucial area: A gadget's power supply. (Read our explainer on why your phone's battery life stinks here.)
A smartwatch would presumably need to go days on end without a charge — a feat that isn't even possible on our relatively spacious smartphones. As Dan Rowinski at ReadWrite notes, "Power usage in mobile devices is more about the operating system the device runs… [l]oading and running a smartphone-style operating system on a watch-sized device would require significant processing and modem power."
It's like trying to fit the cozy furnishings of a three-bedroom home into a tiny one-bedroom apartment. Sure, it's doable. But it won't be pretty.
And in order for smartwatches to really take off, they'll have to do a lot more than beam snack-sized bites of content and notifications to your wrist — stuff the Pebble already does, anyway. To be a truly market-defining product, "there has to be something that makes it more interesting and changes the way you go about your daily life to make it something that everybody's really going to want," says Pong, "like the smartphone when it came out."
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Credit card bill payment app Cred has unveiled a new feature that will offer users a one-click checkout experience through credit cards that are already saved on its platform.
The new offering CRED Pay is the result of Cred’s collaboration with Razorpay and Visa.
It aims to lower brands’ reliance on other sales avenues by helping them create a direct-to-consumer (D2C) channel.
Members can utilise CRED coins to earn exclusive rewards on purchases.
Plans are on to launch CRED Pay on Big Basket, Dineout, and ixigo and others in the next couple of months.
Cred founder Kunal Shah said: “CRED Pay enables instant, safe, and secure payments on credit cards, making spends on merchant platforms as delightful and rewarding as paying bills on CRED.
“By simplifying checkout, CRED Pay will expand the use of credit cards for online payments and enable merchants to offer an instant payment experience on their platforms.”
Prior to the launch, the proposition was trialled with more than 30 merchants including The Man Company, Man Matters, Epigamia, Damensch, and Vahdam Teas, among others.
According to media reports, these merchants saw larger basket sizes and better customer satisfaction with CRED Pay.
On average, the Cred members were found to spend 40% more than the average consumer on online purchases.
Visa group country manager, India, and South Asia T R Ramachandran said: “As people get more familiar with credit cards, it is important to reduce the points of friction in digital payments in order to improve customer stickiness.
“We are delighted to provide this safe, instant, one-click checkout experience through Visa Safe Click on CRED Pay.”
Recently, Cred raised $80m in a Series C funding round led by its existing investor, the partners of DST Global.
Earlier this year, Cred was in the news for enabling rent payments via credit cards.


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"Lys has been a huge miss for us, he has been outstanding since his transfer last season," Wilder told reporters. The French forward's return is a boost for Wilder, whose side are yet to win this season and sit at the bottom of the table with one point from nine games.
Armed forces deploys air and sea search teams following accident over Arabian Sea
The National Care Forum said the hope and joy of the festive season was needed more than ever.
Crown court decision to free teenager because of Covid backlog overruledRelease of defendant held beyond custody time limits ‘was not open’ to trial judge, says high court
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The "Wood Preservatives Market by Formulation (Water-Based, Oil-Based, Solvent-Based), Application (Residential, Commercial, Industrial), and Region (North America, APAC, Europe, South America, Middle East and Africa) - Global Forecast to 2025" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
The Bacon market in APAC is expected to grow from US$ 6,468. 6 Mn in 2019 to US$ 9,281. 1 Mn by 2027; it is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 4. 6% from 2020 to 2027. Increase in consumption of animal-derived products is also bolstering the growth of the food industry.New York, Nov. 27, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Asia Pacific Bacon Market Forecast to 2027 - COVID-19 Impact and Regional Analysis By Nature, Source, Type, Distribution Channel, and Country" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p05989492/?utm_source=GNW The rapid rise in population expansion, along with increased urbanization and focus towards improved quality of life in has led to increased demand for food products at an unprecedented pace in the last few decades.The livestock industry plays the most crucial role in meeting out the growing demand.There is a strong correlation between the level of income and the demand for animal protein.With the rise in disposable income, the demand for animal protein is set to increase, which would lead to an increase in the consumption of animal-based products such as meat, bacon, and others.Further, with the decline in the prices of meat products, the emerging economies are embarking upon the rising consumption of meat and meat products.With the growing focus towards health, consumers are looking forward to dieting rich in animal proteins and, therefore, would demand more if meat, poultry, pork, and other meat products. The demand for animal products has been steadily on the rise owing to the progression in the quality of life coupled with positive changes in international trade. This has led to an expansion in bacon demand. Bacon is used as a convenient food product by most consumers. Bacon is a rich source of animal protein and amino acids such as lysine, and, thus, provides an advantage over other plant-based protein substitutes which have comparatively of low lysine content. The development of new products by the market players is among the other factors expected to positively influence the demand for bacon.The pumped bacon segment led the bacon market based on type in 2019.The pumped bacon is the method in which the bacon is injected with curing ingredients and massaged or tumbled.It has been advised that the use of sodium nitrite should be approximately 120 parts per million (ppm) and an equivalent amount of potassium nitrite used at 148 ppm ingoing.Sodium ascorbate or sodium erythorbate is be used at 550 ppm.The USDA regulation records that sodium ascorbate or sodium erythorbate has a molecular weight of approximately 198.Hydrated forms of such substances should be altered to attain the equivalent of 550 ppm of sodium ascorbate or sodium erythorbate.Since under certain circumstances, nitrite in cured meat product subsidizes to the formation of nitrosamines, a known carcinogenic, the USDA in-plant inspection system calls for pulling samples of pumped bacon. Such samples are examined to determine the level of nitrosamines with the help of a Thermal Energy Analyzer (TEA). If TEA indicates a certain level of nitrosamines, additional samples are collected and subjected to examination using gas chromatography. The presumptive positive must be confirmed by mass spectrometry. If anyone of the original samples collected by USDA for confirmation is found to contain confirmable levels of nitrosamines, all pumped bacon in the production establishment and all future production will be retained.Various emerging economies backed by the massive industrial presence, huge population, and increasing disposal income are the major factors driving the growth of APAC’s linear accelerator market.With the outbreak of COVID-19, the APAC region is likely to get affected concerning economic development.Although China is the global manufacturing hub and leading raw material supplier for various industries, it is one the worst affected countries due to the COVID-19 outbreak followed by India, where all business operations are halted due to 10 week nationwide lockdown.Other leading manufacturing hubs such as South Korea and Japan face a significant impact of the COVID-19 outbreak.The governments imposed various initiatives such as travel bans, business shutdowns, and lockdowns across APAC, which is anticipated to affect the expected revenue generation and overall growth opportunities in APAC.The overall APAC Bacon market size has been derived using both primary and secondary sources.To begin the research process, exhaustive secondary research has been conducted using internal and external sources to obtain qualitative and quantitative information related to the market.The process also serves the purpose of obtaining overview and forecast for the APAC Bacon market with respects to all the segments pertaining to the region.Also, multiple primary interviews have been conducted with industry participants and commentators to validate the data, as well as to gain more analytical insights into the topic.The participants who typically take part in such a process include industry expert such as VPs, business development managers, market intelligence managers, and national sales managers along with external consultants such as valuation experts, research analysts, and key opinion leaders specializing in the APAC Bacon market are OSI Group, JBS S.A, Hormel Foods Corporation, Farmland Industries, Inc., and Applegate Farms, LLC.Read the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p05989492/?utm_source=GNWAbout ReportlinkerReportLinker is an award-winning market research solution. 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Experts said ‘substantial mixing’ of people over a short period of time represents a ‘significant risk for widespread transmission’.
In 35 years as leader, prime minster Hun Sen has steadily undermined democracy in Cambodia.
Supporters of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed an anti-government protest camp in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya on Friday, and at least three people were killed and dozens wounded in the clashes, a Reuters witness and a medical source said. Followers of Sadr carrying pictures of the cleric marched to the central al-Haboubi square, where anti-government protesters have held a sit-in since 2019, after Friday prayers. They fire gunshots and threw petrol bombs at the protesters' tents, leading the protesters to fight back, the Reuters witness said.
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Hospitals in England told to prepare for Covid vaccine rollout in 10 days' time. Exclusive: NHS could receive first deliveries of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine as soon as 7 December
A former porter at Great Ormond Street Hospital has admitted a catalogue of sexual offences against six boys over the course of 35 years. Paul Farrell, 55, has pleaded guilty to 58 child sex offences, including attempted rape and sexual assaults. Wood Green crown court heard the offences took place between 1985 and this year, on victims now aged between eight and 43-years-old.
The Duchess of Cambridge said Friday she wants to create a more "nurturing society" as she launched a report into the lives of young children
Indian police fire tear gas and water cannon in a second day of clashes with farmers marching on New Delhi. The farmers are angry at agricultural reforms they fear will leave them at the mercy of big corporations. Laws passed earlier this year mean farmers are now free to sell their produce to anyone at any price, instead of to state-controlled markets at assured rates.
The AA claims the move would help revive 'beleaguered shops and street traders'.
The browser isolation software market in APAC is expected to grow from US$ 386. 4 million in 2019 to US$ 1,695. 3 million by 2027; it is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 21. 0% from 2020 to 2027.New York, Nov. 27, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Asia Pacific Browser Isolation Software Market Forecast to 2027 - COVID-19 Impact and Regional Analysis By Deployment Type, Enterprise Size, and End-Use Industry" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p05989493/?utm_source=GNW Arousing demand for browser isolation software due to BFSI sector is anticipated to bolster the growth of APAC browser isolation software market.The BFSI sector is among the leading industries to incorporate technologically advanced solutions.Its growth is directly related to the advancement and progress of the information technology industry.Due to the large customer base as well as the availability of sensitive financial information of customers, the BFSI sector is at high risk of data breaching and cyber-attacks.Also the regular use of internet banking solutions has massively expanded the risk of cyber-attacks in BFSI sector.Due to all these threats and theft related problems the BFSI sector is inclined toward investing in the web browser security software across the APAC region.Browser isolation software market provides advanced software restricts any malware, phishing, or impersonation attacks on respective database and accounts of the customers thus increasing the security. Additionally, various micro-financial companies are also opting for the browser security software. Thus, the steps taken by BFSI sector to invest in browser security software solutions has eventually increased the demand of these security solutions and this is anticipated to boost the demand for web browser isolation software, thereby positively bolstering the browser isolation software market in APAC. Further, surge in cyber-security technology related investments is among the other factors expected to positively boost the browser isolation software market.In terms of end-use industry, the BFSI segment led the APAC browser isolation software market in 2019.BFSI sectors have significantly transformed themselves and implemented technology to meet the requirements of all customers.While considerable technological advancements have continuously outperformed organizational adaption, the BFSI sector has adapted faster.This transformation has enhanced the bottom-line, the security issues have also increased which led adoption of browser isolation software market.The number of conventionally tried and tested methods of financial cybercrimes, such as network scanning, phishing, virus/malicious code, website intrusion and malware, and website defacements are rising constantly. Attributing to this fact, the BFSI industry players are increasingly investing on web browser security software, thereby substantially driving the growth of the APAC browser isolation software market.Also the ongoing COVID-19 is having a negative impact over APAC region.APAC is characterized by the presence of a large number of developing countries, positive economic outlook, high industrial presence, huge population, and rising disposable income.All these factors make APAC a major growth driving browser isolation software market.The outbreak of COVID-19 has negatively impacted on industries including browser isolation software market owing to the uncertainty in the supply chain and consumer demand.The lockdown of various factories in China is affecting the supply chains and negatively impacting manufacturing, delivery schedules, and sales of various products and services.China has recently emerged from a 2-month containment phase and moved into the mitigation stage; however, the economic growth is still declining due to uncertainty caused by COVID-19 outbreak.The governments are taking drastic measures to reduce the effects of COVID-19 outbreak by announcing lockdowns, travel, and trade bans. All these measures are expected to have a negative impact on the adoption and growth of browser isolation, especially in the BFSI sector in 2020 and 2021. However, the increasing number of work from home population, the demand for security solutions will increase and will have positive impact on APAC browser isolation software market in near future.The overall APAC browser isolation software market size has been derived using both primary and secondary sources.To begin the research process, exhaustive secondary research has been conducted using internal and external sources to obtain qualitative and quantitative information related to the browser isolation software market.The process also serves the purpose of obtaining overview and forecast for the APAC browser isolation software market with respects to all the segments pertaining to the region.Also, multiple primary interviews have been conducted with browser isolation software market participants and commentators to validate the data, as well as to gain more analytical insights into the topic.The participants who typically take part in such a process include industry experts such as VPs, business development managers, market intelligence managers, and national sales managers along with external consultants such as valuation experts, research analysts, and key opinion leaders specializing in the APAC browser isolation software market. Bitdefender; Broadcom, Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.; Cybernic; Ericom Software.; Menlo Security, Inc.; are among a few players operating in the APAC browser isolation software market.Read the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p05989493/?utm_source=GNWAbout ReportlinkerReportLinker is an award-winning market research solution. Reportlinker finds and organizes the latest industry data so you get all the market research you need - instantly, in one place.__________________________ CONTACT: Clare: firstname.lastname@example.org US: (339)-368-6001 Intl: +1 339-368-6001


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Travel trends forecast: Shopping hotels, 'Nollywood' and digital detoxing
Hotels in the Middle East are moving into shopping malls.
Nigeria is becoming a new travel hot spot.
Geeks need a detox.
Just three of the interesting findings from a new study, World Travel Market's Global Trends Report 2012.
In the report, Euromonitor forecast nine major global travel trends for the next four years (till 2016).
Some are familiar, others unexpected. Here are the most thought-provoking discoveries.
1. Smart TVs will take off. These sophisticated TV sets incorporate Internet, social media and sponsored applications, which allow viewers to learn more details about a certain destination, such as hotel prices, by interacting with a travel program.
2. Tingo.com is the new travel booking star. The TripAdvisor-owned website rebooks travelers' reservations whenever there is a price-drop to the booked room up till 24 hours before the check-in and refunds the price difference.
Tingo has reimbursed £56,000 (US$89,757) to users between the past March, the month it launched, and August 2012, according to Euromonitor.
3. More hotels in the Middle East open inside shopping malls, which is a result of a strong shopping tourism in the region.
4. Nigeria will be a film tourism hot spot due to its robust movie industry, colloquially known as "Nollywood." Euromonitor projects growth of the country's tourist arrivals to increase from 2 percent in 2012 to nearly 3.5 percent in 2015.
5. Digital detox holidays. A growing number of world's population is addicted to portable devices, such as smartphones and tablets.
Euromonitor expects a trend of hotels and resorts launching theme packages and suites aimed at relaxing modern travelers in a technology- and connection-free environment.
Read the full version of the World Travel Market’s Global Trends Report 2012.


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Homebuyers in some of the biggest U.S. cities are seeing a pickup in the number of homes for sale, especially in the most affordable segment of the market.
Small business owners are making their company culture a bigger priority as they respond to the dramatically different expectations of a younger work force and a low unemployment rate and shrinking labor pool
Pennsylvania's treasury department is accusing about a dozen large financial firms of inflating the price of bonds issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over seven years
Shareholders are still voting overwhelmingly in favor of big pay packages for CEOs, but there are more pockets of resistance eight years after "say on pay" became a mandatory exercise at annual meetings
After an all-day meeting with global aviation regulators, the chief of the Federal Aviation Administration sounded more upbeat than ever about prospects for clearing the troubled Boeing 737 Max to fly again
The New York Federal Reserve estimates that the Trump administration's latest round of tariff hikes on Chinese goods will cost the typical U.S. household $831 a year.